While I would like to RJ to be Bret Stiles, there's one thing throwing me off about that, and it was the same reason I dismissed McAllister.  The psychiatric notes described RJ as "middle-aged".  While I might cut a little slack to someone terming McAllister middle-aged, Malcolm McDowell is 70 years old.  He's not ancient, but I can't imagine anyone in their right mind would consider 70 "middle-aged".

Also going back to Ray, the blood on the wall said "He is man".  At the time of the episode airing, I joked around that it really said "Heisman" and O.J. Simpson was the murderer.  But Ray has what looks like a Heisman trophy in his office so I'm wondering if I may have been correct in reading "Heisman" all those years ago.

I give up with a serious suspect, Heller is leading us all on a wild goose chase, and i'm getting fed up of suspecting everyone shown onscreen. 

So, i'm going to be silly. We know RJ is basically another version of PJ, so lets assume that he too is australian. We know that he has great hunting instincts, is skilled outdoors and is very good with a knife.


At the end of "Red Sky in the Morning", we see that RJ kills the copycats in a very skilled manner, almost as if he's saying "That's not how you kill someone mate, this is how you kill someone"

RJ is Crocodile Dundee

Writing this time not so much to submit a new theory, but to ask what should be a pretty obvious question.

Couldn't we have eliminated at least a few of the suspects on the list after S6E1?  I mean, we have the list narrowed down to 7.  Red John then kills Brett Partridge and Lisbon responds to the scene where she is knocked unconscious by Red John.  Red John goes so far as to call Patrick Jane from the scene contemporaneously from Lisbon's phone.

So we have a definite time and location for Red John (at the Partridge scene as he's calling from Lisbon's phone.  Why on earth wouldn't Jane and the CBI team check/confirm the whereabouts of the suspects on the list at that moment?  Even if done discreetly, it would not be too hard to check on some of their whereabouts.  Even assuming that Red John would have been smart enough to leave his cell phone somewhere far away from the scene (obviously knowing that it was being tracked).  You STILL ought to be able to check out the alibis of SOME of the suspects.  I mean, check to see if Tom McAllister was on duty up in Napa.  Check to see if Bret Stiles was even IN the states at the time.  Check to see if Kirkland was on assignment somewhere at the time.  Check SOMETHING. 

They just seem to let the whole investigation DROP.  They just say "Oh well.  It was Red John.  No need to even TRY to investigate." 

What's up with THAT?!?

I'm not bashing the Partridge isn't dead group as anything is possible but how do you explain Sac PD saying there is a DOA named Brett Partridge at the scene? There are quite a number of people that take part in a crime scene investgation and they can't all be in on it.